The modern periodic table, arranged in rows and columns, was first introduced by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. At the time, it included the known elements and their properties, but Mendeleev predicted ...

The periodic table of elements (often known simply as the periodic table) has been helping scientists with their work for a little over 150 years. The handy visual reference guide organizes known ...

The colors of rubies and emeralds are so striking that they define shades of red and green – ruby red and emerald green. But ...

They are seeking good fortune in their hunt for an elusive entity: element 119. The periodic table looks complete, but it isn’t. The race is on to discover the table’s next row of elements ...

Both rubies and emeralds are minerals, which is a type of rock with a consistent chemical composition and a highly ordered ...

One feature of compounds made with transition metals is their intense colour. There are many examples in nature, including ...

The low-carbon transition needs batteries. And those need lithium. Fortunately, the metal is abundant, and science is getting ...

Eleven non-metals are gases at room temperature, including oxygen and chlorine. One non-metal, bromine, is a liquid at room temperature. The other non-metals are solids at room temperature ...

Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

Dramatic changes in physical properties occur on descending group 16 of the periodic table. Oxygen ... tellurium must be available for basic research in the laboratory and for use in industry.

Flow Launcher has a lot of useful plug-ins for productivity. It also has some very unexpected ones, as we're about to see.